A Breakdown of the Veto Dispute
Over the past few weeks, there has been significant discussion in the Maine political discourse on whether or not sixty-five bills were vetoed by the Governor or have become law. […]
Read More →
Compromise Budget Contains $294 Million Spending Increase
According to the Office of Fiscal and Program Review, the budget deal backed by Senate Republicans and House Democrats would raise state spending by an astonishing $294 million over the […]
Read More →Rep. Alan Casavant, a dangerous man
Yesterday afternoon, the legislature released the committee assignment lists, naming each legislator to one of the myriad legislative committees. As an education policy guy, the first list I checked was […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 12
Part F of the state’s Race to the Top application is a catch-all section touching on school funding, charter schools, and other school reform approaches that may not have been […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 9
Part D(3) of the state’s Race to the Top application is related to “ensuring equitable distribution of effective teachers and principals,” by which the Obama administration means ensuring “that students […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 5
The second major section of the Race to the Top application relates to “standards and assessments,” and while this section of the application is rather long, there isn’t a whole […]
Read More →Live Blogging the first meeting of the “Joint Select Committee on Health Care Reform Opportunities and Implementation”
*Start at the bottom and read up 3:05: Adjournment. No date set for the next meeting, and really, why bother? The committee sees its role very clearly: the soon-to-be outgoing […]
Read More →Testimony Against Anti-Citizen Initiative Bills
Read the full report | Tarren Bragdon, the CEO of The Maine Heritage Policy Center, delivered testimony last week in Augusta to oppose three bills that have been introduced to […]
Read More →$100 a day and what do you get…
With the legislature’s most recent tax-increasing outrage dominating the news from Augusta, it may have escaped the attention of the public that as of yesterday, the 17th, our intrepid legislators […]
Read More →OPEGA to remain in place – for now…
The budget passed by majority vote in the legislature on Monday slashed staff and funding for OPEGA but left the agency intact and, more importantly, removed language in the original […]
Read More →